Sobelivirales Explained

Sobelivirales is an order of RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes.^[1] Member viruses have a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The name of the group is a portmanteau of member orders "sobemovirus-like" and -virales which is the suffix for a virus order.^[2]

Taxonomy

The following families are recognized:

• Alvernaviridae
• Barnaviridae
• Solemoviridae

Notes and References

1. Web site: Virus Taxonomy: 2019 Release. talk.ictvonline.org. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. 25 April 2020.
2. Web site: Proposal: Create a megataxonomic framework, filling all principal taxonomic ranks, for realm Riboviria. Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini M, Kuhn JH. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). en. 2020-05-21.